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Do you think primarily in English? | mattmaroon: Einstein famously thought in pictures, but very few humans do. |
Do you think primarily in English? | lacker: I don't think people are capable of introspecting with enough accuracy to tell if they think in English. When you try to describe how you think, you might say you think in English, but perhaps you just don't have words accurate enough to explain how thought really works. |
Do you think primarily in English? | plinkplonk: context: Most educated Indians are trilingual (the provincial language - there are more than 20 of these, with a few hundred distinct dialects- , Hindi (the national language), and English. I can read and write French and German but I don't really think in these.I find that the "voice in my head" speaks d... |
Do you think primarily in English? | jd: I'm Dutch and I often find myself thinking in English. If I work in English all day I context switch and English becomes my "default" language. When I wake up the next day my first thoughts will then be in English. Until I consciously switch back I'll continue to function in en_us mode.It can be really annoying at ... |
Do you think primarily in English? | tel: In my experience I think in English 90% of the time. When working problems requiring a lot of spatial insight, I pretty easily switch to something more visual and visceral. This also happens when I'm drawing and sometimes when I'm playing music.I'm also learning Chinese. It is anything but an easy language to lear... |
Do you think primarily in English? | warwick: Sure, ask this while I'm sitting here with a Linguistics text studying for a final. This post is going to be a bit long.Empathy is a hard word to bring up an image of because it's meaning is largely connotative rather than denotative. On the other hand, there are many words ('Book', 'Clarinet', 'Web Browser'... |
Do you think primarily in English? | rokhayakebe: It depends. English is my third lamguage. French is the second. Wolof the first. I think in all three depending on the situation. When I first moved to the States I would speak in French in my head and translate it in English from brain to mouth. As the years went by, I started to automatically think in En... |
Do you think primarily in English? | strlen: I am bi-lingual: English and Russian (having lived in US since 1996). Often times, however, I can't quite tell whether it is Russian or English I am thinking in. |
Do you think primarily in English? | kennon: I'm actually learning Russian right now, while living in St. Petersburg, so I think about this a lot. The program I'm in is intended to take us to a high level of fluency-- Superior, or Level 3-4 on the various scales. As a result, there is a lot of talk about thinking in the target language. I, sadly, still fe... |
Do you think primarily in English? | markessien: Nobody thinks in English or any language. I know this, because I actually thought about the problem you are describing when I was a child of about 8 - I was faced with the problem because some guy said he thinks in words. I realised that I didn't think in words, but in concepts.Later, when I was much older,... |
Do you think primarily in English? | randomwalker: In case you are unaware, the question of how much of our thinking is language-constrained has been extensively studied in linguistics and cognitive science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis is a good starting point. Anecdotal evidence is great, but you should also look into the studies.... |
Review My WebApp | Angostura: A fascinating WebApp, and really useful to schools and students, I would have thought. I've only tested it for about 2 minutes, but I already found one odd ommission - try searching for Ethene and see what you get.Also it says that yo can search by common name, which is fabulous, but you might want to open t... |
Do you think primarily in English? | iamelgringo: I was raised in Central America by US parents. At 4, I knew more Spanish than English. We moved back to the US when I was 14. Since then, I've lost quite a bit of my Spanish, but I'm still fluent.When I was younger, I would think in Spanish and occasionally dream in Spanish. I don't do that any more. ... |
Do you think primarily in English? | davidw: I think in Italian occasionally, but of course English is my native language so that's what gets used most. When programming, it's English only, and speaking Italian doesn't come as naturally. I started trying to think in Italian as a way to practice the language, a long time ago, and found that it was pretty... |
Do you think primarily in English? | weiser: My view is that people think in (1) words (2) pictures and (3) concepts. How much of each depends upon the individual.As for myself, I think mostly in pictures and concepts, very rarely in words.I am bilingual, but since I rarely use words for thinking, languages don't matter as much. |
Do you think primarily in English? | dimitar: I think in the language that I am using or have experience on the subject - my native language is Bulgarian, but sometimes I think in an another language when I face a concept I experienced in another language. Those cannot be only natural languages but also formal ones - its too confusing and slow to translat... |
Do you think primarily in English? | lst: The language/culture influences quite a bit.I know this quite well, because I grew up with a mother language quite different from my current language (both are not English), so learning other languages (preferably really different from your mother tongue) is always a mind opener.I made this experience: while slowl... |
Do you think primarily in English? | Eliezer: Hazoo fzeem! Wallenmacher bibble zark zark wachoon gra faZAMble! |
Do you think primarily in English? | gur2: Just practice more Spanish.I am a Spanish native speaker who later learned English, French and Italian for work. In my case, I don't have the feeling of translating sentences/ideas/concepts to English in my mind. They just come naturally, or don't come at all. When they don't come naturally, it's normally because... |
Scalable framework for web apps? | thibauld: Hi,I just blogged about the issue of choosing the right software stack to build your web app a few days ago. You can read it here : http://thibauld.com/2008/11/web-application-implementation-s...And I'm currently writing the next post about code architecture... I'll probably post it today.
Cheers,Thibauld |
Do you think primarily in English? | known: Language = Culture (for e.g Japanese) |
Review My WebApp | lpgauth: Some chemical names are displayed as regexp... Not sure if all chemist understand them :)ex: 1$l^{6}-thiacycloprop-2-yne 1,1-dioxide |
Do you think primarily in English? | ChaitanyaSai: Native and non-native (even if fluent) speakers recruit different areas of the brain when speaking or comprehending a language. This is now well known from fMRI studies.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi... : From the abstract (Listening to comprehensive but non-native language se... |
Do you think primarily in English? | danw: I think in which ever language I have been using the most recently. This varies between English, Welsh, French, Japanese, etc. |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | cperciva: A significant portion of the application has already been coded by my boss ... his many years of C experience ... I am continually refactoring his code ...Several responses come to mind here:1. Unless you're working for a very unusual startup, your time would be better spent writing new code rather than refac... |
Do you think primarily in English? | saundby: English is my primary language, but I also picked up a fair bit of German and Danish as a child from my grandparents.I mostly think in English when programming, but when I get into either specific relationships between elements of the program or high level conceptualization I tend to slip into German. Names fo... |
Do you think primarily in English? | noahlt: While it is possible to "think in pictures", language is required to form complex thoughts.A long time ago, people who were born deaf were called dumb. This is because, being deaf, they were never able to learn a language, and therefore could not form complex thoughts. |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | CatDancer: How about recommendation #7 of http://paulgraham.com/head.html ? |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | sarvesh: Have you spoken to him about it? Explain to him how your time and in turn your startup's money both of which are precious at this point are being wasted. If he still didn't get you are in the wrong boat my friend, quit. |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | pasbesoin: 1. Make a best effort to reach a mutual understanding. Don't assume you are right; question both sides.2. (Prepare to) Move on. If your boss is truly holding things back, staying will increase your frustration while limiting your development. Been there, done that. |
Shall we hasten the demise of IE6 by charging more? | theantidote: Definitely charge people extra for making intranet sites IE 6 compatible because they have control over that and they should upgrade. Otherwise you can consider a small surcharge for IE6 on internet sites but it's kind of unfair to punish your clients for the browsers their customers use because they can't... |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | SingAlong: I've dealt with such a guy during a freelance project. Heck my situation was worse. The boss and his whole team of 6 members were like an expired drug who couldn't even read the docs of a framework or language and would get excited and choose a framework in an (unstable) ver 0.1 for production env. Everytime... |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | zackola: Can you give some examples of patterns that show up in your bosses code that you disagree with? Let us judge them too.How many other developers are on this team with you and your boss? Maybe you can get them to stand up and say something too.Maybe you can get together with your team and do peer reviews once a ... |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | babo: There is more than one way to do it. Design patterns, basic principles of style, all of these are only soft recommendations, don't mistify them. Try to cope with the existing code, probably you will learn from the old fart. |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | Angostura: I'd like to hear your boss' point of view before jumping to judgement.... and I think you could probably do with hearing his point of view too. |
Do you think primarily in English? | aristus: When thinking about numbers and music, it's primarily colors and shapes. Every tone and digit has a different color-shape. "Blue notes" really are blue, flats are brown, harmony is a slurry-grey pattern that's hard to describe. :)I think primarily in English or Spanish words, then pictures when I am ramping up... |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | LogicHoleFlaw: I'm not trying to be rude, but some of tension in this situation seems to be caused by a clash of egos as much as by any technical deficiency.In my current employment, there are many procedural deficiencies as well as technical weaknesses. But one thing that really is done right is that every piece of co... |
Micro-payments | jamess: There is one and only one such mechanism that exists, reverse-billed SMS. Even then, the fees payable will often amount to some 25% of the total. What are you going to be selling? If its something you are expecting lots of repeat custom, then you could do as all the music vendors do and aggregate bills over som... |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | lacker: First, you need to be nicer. Calling him "stuck in the past" and saying he doesn't get "basic principles" or "basic OOP" is needlessly insulting.Second, stop blaming him. You're working for him, so obviously he has done some things right and deserves some respect. If you understand something he doesn't, it's yo... |
Do you think primarily in English? | apu: I find that I use English for everything except 2 major classes of thoughts:1. Art. Specifically, if I'm trying to compare some work of art (music/movie/art), I have a virtual "media player/audiovisual search engine" in my mind that quickly lets me locate other works that are similar, related, or otherwise relevan... |
Do you think primarily in English? | thomasmallen: Native english speaker, but I've known Spanish long enough that sometimes I think in Spanish. |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | bigbang: Whenever there is an argument over whether something should be refactored, dont call a meeting(if it happens now). Just email with pros and cons(to as much detail as possible in a digestable way). Its easier to get lost in a conversation, but with email I feel its easier to convince and once pros and cons are ... |
Do you think primarily in English? | rjett: Does anyone know if there is anything open-source that is comparative to Rosetta Stone? I would like to learn Spanish and also brush up on my Italian a bit. I mention Rosetta Stone because I hear that it's the best language learning tool out there but I'm open to other learning systems as well. |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | Tichy: I wonder if there are two programmers in the world who can agree on the best way to solve a problem. |
Why bookmark when you can keep the text too? (check out my web clippings app) | hedgehog: Hello all,A while back I got frustrated with the folders full of disorganized bookmarks I'd accumulated. After some thought about how to solve it I built an app that's working well for me. I'm soliciting feedback to see what I can do to make it work well for other people.clipng is based on the following ideas... |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | azanar: I'd have to understand more about your situation to really give any sort of advice. A few questions come to mind:1. Do you believe what the startup is doing is worthwhile? How much of what keeps you there is just a need for a job, and how much is due to you wanting this job in particular?2. Does his code functi... |
How do you deal with a boss who is stuck in the past? | jcapote: I've been the in the same situation(s), and I just left when I couldn't handle it anymore. |
What are your web app ideas? | jamess: Not precisely a web app per se, but a product I'd really like to see someone produce. It seems to me that the BBC's iPlayer sets the standard for TV stations broadcasting their content over the internet. They have flash streaming at reasonable quality, plus various species of download for different platforms in... |
What are your web app ideas? | CatDancer: You may find http://www.sagemath.org/ helpful for your project, if you haven't seen it already ^_^ |
Do you think primarily in English? | swamperfox: If you have time check out Korzybski's general semantics. NLP also deals with this. One of the classics is Benjamin Worf's 'Language, thought and reality.
Generally speaking, it seems we describe the world to ourselves with internal dialogue and then react to the words of our description rather than respond... |
Can you recommend a blog writer or service? | noodle: well, if you're interested, i might be able to help. i can write reasonably well but don't have anything to write about.drop me an email (in my profile) and perhaps we can work something out. |
Can you recommend a blog writer or service? | rms: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?s=148http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=102 |
Where do you buy hosting space from ? | omarchowdhury: Softlayer, ThePlanet, Mediatemple |
What are your web app ideas? | ieatpaste: http://startupskunkworks.blogspot.com/I'd be happy to discuss anything. |
Where do you buy hosting space from ? | noodle: this is the the obligatory slicehost post |
Best online brokerage? | noodle: zecco, although you need to deposit more than $800 to get the free trades. don't have to actually make use of the full deposit amount, though |
Where do you buy hosting space from ? | liangzan: linode, frro.net |
Is there a better way to find out if there are competitors than Googling for it? | nreece: You can list 3-5 general terms (keywords) that best describe your concept, and search for those keywords in Google to find anything close to your idea. |
Best online brokerage? | pmorici: What about Scottrade, trades are cheap and minimums are low...http://www.scottrade.com/ |
Is there a better way to find out if there are competitors than Googling for it? | jwilliams: Well - I'd recommend that you use all the channels that you'd expect a prospective customer to use.If you'd expect Google to be a main channel - then any serious (established) competitor should be represented there. |
Best online brokerage? | mdolon: A lot of my friends swear by ThinkOrSwim, you might want to check them out.http://www.thinkorswim.com/ |
Where do you buy hosting space from ? | ctingom: Hostnexus. |
Is there a better way to find out if there are competitors than Googling for it? | pjharrin: Crunchbase.com very very helpful |
Best online brokerage? | pjharrin: Make sure you don't qualify as a pattern day trader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_day_trader)Unless you are looking for education services or becoming a day trade, any discount broker will do. As with most things the more you pay the more you get, ie. thinkorswim isn't the cheapest but they focus on e... |
Is there a better way to find out if there are competitors than Googling for it? | thesethings: Though for different purposes (usually just research or shopping tools), I use these Google phrases almost every day:"better than $thing""like $thing""same as $thing" |
Is there a better way to find out if there are competitors than Googling for it? | teej: If you can find at least one, spyfu.com can be pretty helpful in finishing out your list. |
Do you think primarily in English? | known: I speak 7 languages. Whenever I am in company with this specific linguistic group I start thinking in their culture. |
Are these scam sites? | agentbleu: looks like a good scam:) |
Is there a better way to find out if there are competitors than Googling for it? | SwellJoe: If Google doesn't know about them, they are not a threat to you yet. Launch fast, get customers, and move fast. You'll then be the one to beat. I'm not saying you don't want to know about early stage competitors...but I've been amused to note over the years that 90% of my "new competitors" have disappeared... |
Are these scam sites? | dfranke: Seems like an odd conspiracy theory. Robo-dialers are nothing new and I haven't noticed any increase in my receiving them. Any evidence for this? |
problem is, web apps can't act as clients? | petercooper: You're looking for OAuth :) http://oauth.net/ - OAuth provides you with "valet keys" (the non technical term!) so that third party apps can go into other apps for you to do just what is necessary.Twitter is looking to implement OAuth (supposedly they already have in some regard, but it's not in public use)... |
Micro-payments | massness: I'm trying to setup a website that will allow a small community to sell stuff to each other, but to make the whole thing viable I need to figure out a way to take a micro-payment from the seller at the time they upload their listing. I'm not too keen on the SMS model, the aggregate billing option is one that ... |
Are these scam sites? | ericb: I don't think the math supports your conspiracy theory. Website ads do not pay enough to support robo dialer + real phone calls + electricity + risk of getting sued. |
What is your blog? | jaxn: http://jaxn.orgI have been blogging since 2001, but it has not been the most consistent endeavor. The topical focus has shifted several times and the frequency of posts ebbs and flows. But I enjoy it. |
Do you think primarily in English? | Restructure: I'm a visual learner, and I think in terms of images, even when programming. I am also decent at drawing/painting.The concept of "empathy" makes me think of mirror neurons and makes me imagine nervous systems of human bodies. |
problem is, web apps can't act as clients? | mattmaroon: There have been services like that for eBay. I used to use one that did auto listings for me. I think Auctomatic used to do something of the sort too. |
Are these scam sites? | omarchowdhury: You are completely wrong to think that websites that list phone numbers and other people's histories with said phone numbers are perpetrating the actual calls. Site such as WTFcalls.com are only trying to seek traffic through ranking for phone number keywords in Google (because it is very easy to do so -... |
Best online brokerage? | jay888: I would recommend Wells Trade. If you have more than 25K to invest, then you get 100 free trades. Very good customer service |
What is your blog? | shaunxcode: http://commonphp.blogspot.com - started to document working through common lisp in php, slowly turned into a documentation of giving up on php and writing a new language... sort of. |
What is your blog? | ddemchuk: http://www.layeredthoughts.comJust got started on it about a month ago...mainly tech, programming, business stuff, with some random life tossed in. I've been using MindManager to map out new posts and it has been great, makes it really easy to keep your research organized. |
What is your blog? | mdolon: I blog at http://monfx.com/ and http://devgrow.com/Nothing serious yet. |
What is your blog? | pjharrin: My blog is at http://www.peterharrington.info mostly marketing, tech and entrepreneur stuff |
Help me brainstorm ideas for an Open Access Workshop | many: I have no idea what you're on to, but it sounds interesting (er.. uh.. you sound enthusastic (if i can pull that through the radar))You know, scrapbooking is fundamentally simple, and I can fish up an idea I had several months ago for scrapbooking. The notion is "like Etsy" but more interactive, where users can ... |
What is your blog? | spif: Post most of my stuff on my startups blog: http://blog.soocial.comI gave up on personal blogging when I started Soocial. |
Feedback on my Weekend Project | halo: Looks pretty good. There's not really much to it to comment on - attractive design but fairly generic Web 2.0 these days so I'm fairly immune.Hardly a deal-breaker, but if you redesign at some point I'd consider making the navigation smaller so people don't have to scroll to play games if they have 800px vertical... |
Feedback on my Weekend Project | many: Only looking at the site, it seems you could do better than make me wonder what "real prizes" might refer to, before signing up. Probably emphasize the reality up front.Now, after reading your entry here. . .Well, hm. I think the only question is: how well are you doing compared to your friends? |
Feedback on my Weekend Project | many: oh, maybe I'm wrong to block ads & popups. too real for me. |
Feedback on my Weekend Project | babul: I actually like it. It may not have many good games on there yet, but this works to keep things simple and you can tell what you are going to get in each section and page quickly and accurately.League tables are always a good idea, so good to see that. Plus having community forums would be good too. It would hel... |
Where do you buy hosting space from ? | kngspook: Linode, currently, thinking about switching or augmenting it with WebFaction.I've used WebFaction before, and they're really good. But they're geared a little more towards frameworks like Django and Rails (but naturally, they do PHP too). They're really quite good. Pretty solid email set up too (which is i... |
valuing a non-existent company | ksvs: Why not skirt the question and take the funding on a convertible note? |
valuing a non-existent company | jaxn: I heard an Angel say "pick a number between 3 and 5 million and move on". I think the point is that the investors need enough equity to have a good upside (50x $) and the company needs to maintain enough equity to be motivated (the majority).So, if you are shooting for the fences, how much do you think the compa... |
Gift ideas for hacker types? | p858snake: Although there a tad old you could look at http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/12/04/5-gifts-for-the-techie-i... and http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/12/17/stammys-holiday-2007-gif... and use them as a basic guide. Although i do like the idea of the Nalgene bottles <http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/SearchResult.a... |
How to package this algorithm? | andrewljohnson: Sounds like you're going to be violating some Terms of Service that users of a software like adBlock skirt because they're just private citizens.Verdict: if your software is good, you'll get your pants sued off. But, I assume since you didn't post a link to a demo, you're a business guy with an idea and... |
How to package this algorithm? | fizx: "Wrapper induction" (Do a Google Scholar search for it) has been around for a while (Kushmerick, 1997). It's used by search engines, etc, quite successfully, but I don't know of anyone who is able to make a living selling it standalone.Independent of that, I don't think it's enough of a value-add for me to pay f... |
How to package this algorithm? | lacker: If you copy other peoples' content and host it from your servers, that's copyright infringement. It doesn't matter if you call it an RSS feed or if you just copy it exactly.What you could do is offer people software that downloads web pages but strips the ads. This could be a neat feature of an RSS reader, or p... |
How to package this algorithm? | m_eiman: Instapaper.com does this, more or less. Their basic service is free, but they (he actually, unless he's expanded lately) sell an iPhone app with additional usability features and offline reading.It's a really useful thing, but probably a bit shady in the legal area with ToSes. |
How to package this algorithm? | jfornear: Regarding subscription pricing, if you are going to charge and you want to keep the price under $10/mo, charge at least $5.99/mo because a) you can get away with it, and b) $3.99/mo could make your product seem cheap. IMO $5.99 is close to the cost of a fast food meal, which most people don't hesitate when fa... |
How to package this algorithm? | markessien: The hardest sell to make is a monthly subscription service. It's easier to sell yearly or one-time. |
What is your blog? | DarkShikari: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/ |
know any good browsergames? | ErrantX: ikariam.com (I play that one day to day and it is a nice distraction :))Gameforge (the makers of IK) do others too: such as Ogame (which is similar).I've not come across a hacker friendly one sadly: market? |
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